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UNC club challenges students to survive in Chapel Hill's treacherous wilderness

By Alexis Dorf | October 8

Survivor Carolina started in spring 2024 out of founder Jake Schattin's desire to bring the iconic CBS show to UNC. The show featured mental and physical ...

EROT encourages poets of color to take up space

By Erin Mun | October 7

Ebony Readers/Onyx Theater, a spoken word poetry collective for people of color, aims to normalize underrepresented stories by showcasing them through ...

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Column: Is it fashion nostalgia or am I having an existential crisis?

By Hamsini Sivakumar | October 7

"After a week spent (hopefully not creepily) staring at people’s outfits in Lenoir Dining Hall and online, trying to find a conclusion to what is obviously ...

'For us, By us': Lightwood Studios highlights underrepresented voices through film

By Sophia Graci | October 7

Lightwood Studios was founded in fall 2021 by Johnathan Brown and is a media collective that aims to represent stories from people of color and other ...

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Slingshot Festival showcases electronic music from artists around the world

By Will Kleinschmidt | October 7

About 20 artists from around the world participated in the annual electronic arts event, Slingshot Festival, at The Fruit in Durham on Friday and Saturday. ...

Crochet Club creates tight-knit community, donates blankets to unhoused people

By Kate Alexander-Heyward | October 7

“Creating something really gives you an opportunity to give your brain a break without that guilt associated with it,” club Vice President Devon Cholon ...

Black-Owned Restaurants around the Triangle offer patrons an array of cuisines

By Morgan Perry | October 7

Black-owned restaurants in the Triangle area work tirelessly to supply citizens with good food and good experiences.

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How Mutual Aid makes the Carrboro Really Really Free Market, Free.

By Katie DuHaime | October 7

The Really Really Free Market occurs on the first Saturday of every month at the Carrboro Town Commons. The market is fueled by the Carrboro community ...

Sankofa Band comes home to Chapel Hill after 20 years apart

By Cameron Hall | October 7

Sankofa, a hip-hop band, reunited at UNC for Homecoming and performed at Cat's Cradle on Friday. Founded in 1997, the group broke up in the early 2000s ...

Ackland brings collection of prints from van Gogh, Rembrandt and more to the public

By Alexis Clifton | October 7

The Ackland Art Museum's newest exhibition, Dürer to Matisse: 400 Years of European Prints, opened on Sept. 27. The exhibition features 97 print artworks ...

Visiting artist Lorena Molina turns painful experiences into performance art

By Jaya Nadella | October 6

On Friday, visiting artist Lorena Molina spoke at the Hanes Art Center for an event titled "Balancing Act on Home, Art, and Academia: A Reckoning From ...

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Carolina Artists’ Coalition's open mic celebrates vulnerability and experimentation

By Brooke Xu | October 6

On Friday, the Carolina Artists' Coalition, a UNC club that seeks to highlight intersectionality between artforms, held an open mic night at Epilogue ...

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FRANK Gallery’s Bird-Themed Art Sale showcases creativity through nature-inspired art

By Ava Beahn | October 6

FRANK Gallery in Carrboro held a bird-themed sidewalk art sale, featuring various forms of bird art. Artists share their inspiration for the works they ...

Residential Learning Programs seek to build resilience in students

By Brooke Xu | October 3

Residential Learning Programs provide a unique community for undergraduate students living on campus at UNC.

N.C. artists paint landscapes of local landmarks for eighth annual Paint it Orange

By Jaya Nadella | October 3

The eighth annual Paint it Orange competition started on Sep. 27 and will adjudicate artists on Friday at the Eno Arts Mill gallery in Hillsborough, followed ...

Ackland Film Forum and Varsity Theatre presents: Election anticipation on screen

By Ashley Burnette | October 3

The Varsity Theatre on Franklin Street will begin screening a wide variety of films involving politics and elections on Tuesdays nights prior to the upcoming ...

'Shark Tank'-style competition show featuring UNC students premieres

By Albert Carlson | October 2

"Seed Money" is a new show, produced by The Design Network, that puts UNC students into a "Shark Tank" style competition. The show premiered on The Design ...

'You have helped save my life': Local organization provides books to inmates

By Marisa Rosa | October 2

The Prison Books Collective is an organization founded in 2006 that delivers books to incarcerated people in both state and federal prisons. Secretary ...

Chapboro Book Crawl celebrates local independent bookstores

By Caroline King | October 1

On Sunday, the Chapboro Book Crawl was held at four bookstores across Chapel Hill and Carrboro: Flyleaf Books, Golden Fig Books, Epilogue Books Chocolate ...

1,2,3 Puppetry combines social justice and entertainment

By Erin Mun | October 1

1,2,3 Puppetry is an entertainment company based in Chapel Hill, started by Sol Ramirez when he was a kid. Now, Ramirez is a student at the University ...